Saturday, January 26, 2013

A Bit Late for Wildflower Wednesday

I don't remember what I've posted for Gail's Wildflower Wednesday in January in the past. I didn't think I had anything this time, but it was pretty nice out today, and I had a few minutes to go out and take a few photos.

Did you know there was a native heuchera, also known as coral bells that has quite pretty foliage? I am pleased that I planted several of them, and hope to divide them to put in other spots as well.

It was a bit too sunny, but I wanted to include this clump, because the red in the foliage is more noticeable.

Here's a photo with the tag. It's Heuchera richardsonii. The blooms are smaller than the cultivars.

I was going to provide the link to this plant at the USDA database, but the site is temporarily unavailable. Here's a different link that has some good information. It's nice to have a plant that has foliage that looks this good in January.

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About Me

I am married with 2 grown children and two grandsons. We live in the house on a corner lot that my husband grew up in. I have been talking him out of more grass over time in order to increase space for gardening. We have veggies, annual, biennial and perennial flowers, some wild and/or native, and herbs sharing growing areas. We recently had to have the tree in our front yard cut down, and I am putting mostly native plants in this area. I love seeing insects, especially bees and butterflies frequent the blooms, and have some plants for the caterpillars to eat.

Short-toothed mountain mint

Echaneaceas paradoxa and pallida

Wild quinine

Whorled milkweed

Ironweed

Wild senna

Grayhead coneflower 7/25/13

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